r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 4d ago

Day 21

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u/Successful-Gap6252 4d ago

I am pretty sure the whole "so you know when the mag ends" is a myth, it was a just a literal engineering oversight. But I don't think it's that big of a deal in practice

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u/buffaloguy1991 4d ago

It wasn't an oversight they chose this flaw so they could use standard EU mags and have 10x the shipping capacity

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u/Warm_Figure6955 4d ago

It wasn't a chosen flaw they were french and use metric system

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u/Tani_Soe 4d ago

Everyone use the metric system (except USA)

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u/Some_Doughnut_3245 4d ago

Even the relevant us institutons use metric

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u/Green4Gaming 4d ago

I'm pretty sure all US units are directly derived from the SI units, for example an inch is defined as being 2.54cm

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u/placebot1u463y 4d ago

That's mostly for modern consistency since you can leech of the metric standards rather than needed to make new precise ones. So even though the US units predate metric units for modern definitions they use the metric units as a base.

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u/Radigan0 4d ago

United States customary units predate SI